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Paper Title* (use style: paper title)

*Note: Sub-titles are not captured in Xplore and should not be used

line 1: 1st Given Name Surname line 1: 2nd Given Name Surname line 1: 3rd Given Name Surname
line 2: dept. name of organization line 2: dept. name of organization line 2: dept. name of organization
(of Affiliation) (of Affiliation) (of Affiliation)
line 3: name of organization line 3: name of organization line 3: name of organization
(of Affiliation) (of Affiliation) (of Affiliation)
line 4: City, Country line 4: City, Country line 4: City, Country
line 5: email address or ORCID line 5: email address or ORCID line 5: email address or ORCID

line 1: 4th Given Name Surname line 1: 5th Given Name Surname line 1: 6th Given Name Surname
line 2: dept. name of organization line 2: dept. name of organization line 2: dept. name of organization
(of Affiliation) (of Affiliation) (of Affiliation)
line 3: name of organization line 3: name of organization line 3: name of organization
(of Affiliation) (of Affiliation) (of Affiliation)
line 4: City, Country line 4: City, Country line 4: City, Country
line 5: email address or ORCID line 5: email address or ORCID line 5: email address or ORCID

Abstract—This electronic document is a “live” template and that anticipate your paper as one part of the entire
already defines the components of your paper [title, text, heads, proceedings, and not as an independent document. Please do
etc.] in its style sheet. *CRITICAL: Do Not Use Symbols, not revise any of the current designations.
Special Characters, Footnotes, or Math in Paper Title or
Abstract. (Abstract) III. PREPARE YOUR PAPER BEFORE STYLING
Before you begin to format your paper, first write and
Keywords—component, formatting, style, styling, insert (key
words) save the content as a separate text file. Complete all content
and organizational editing before formatting. Please note
I. INTRODUCTION (HEADING 1) sections A-D below for more information on proofreading,
spelling and grammar.
This template, modified in MS Word 2007 and saved as a
“Word 97-2003 Document” for the PC, provides authors Keep your text and graphic files separate until after the
with most of the formatting specifications needed for text has been formatted and styled. Do not use hard tabs, and
preparing electronic versions of their papers. All standard limit use of hard returns to only one return at the end of a
paper components have been specified for three reasons: (1) paragraph. Do not add any kind of pagination anywhere in
ease of use when formatting individual papers, (2) automatic the paper. Do not number text heads-the template will do that
compliance to electronic requirements that facilitate the for you.
concurrent or later production of electronic products, and (3)
conformity of style throughout a conference proceedings. A. Abbreviations and Acronyms
Margins, column widths, line spacing, and type styles are Define abbreviations and acronyms the first time they are
built-in; examples of the type styles are provided throughout used in the text, even after they have been defined in the
this document and are identified in italic type, within abstract. Abbreviations such as IEEE, SI, MKS, CGS, sc, dc,
parentheses, following the example. Some components, such and rms do not have to be defined. Do not use abbreviations
as multi-leveled equations, graphics, and tables are not in the title or heads unless they are unavoidable.
prescribed, although the various table text styles are
B. Units
provided. The formatter will need to create these
components, incorporating the applicable criteria that follow.  Use either SI (MKS) or CGS as primary units. (SI
units are encouraged.) English units may be used as
II. EASE OF USE secondary units (in parentheses). An exception would
be the use of English units as identifiers in trade, such
A. Selecting a Template (Heading 2) as “3.5-inch disk drive”.
First, confirm that you have the correct template for your
paper size. This template has been tailored for output on the  Avoid combining SI and CGS units, such as current
A4 paper size. If you are using US letter-sized paper, please in amperes and magnetic field in oersteds. This often
close this file and download the Microsoft Word, Letter file. leads to confusion because equations do not balance
dimensionally. If you must use mixed units, clearly
B. Maintaining the Integrity of the Specifications state the units for each quantity that you use in an
The template is used to format your paper and style the equation.
text. All margins, column widths, line spaces, and text fonts
 Do not mix complete spellings and abbreviations of
are prescribed; please do not alter them. You may note
units: “Wb/m2” or “webers per square meter”, not
peculiarities. For example, the head margin in this template
“webers/m2”. Spell out units when they appear in
measures proportionately more than is customary. This
text: “. . . a few henries”, not “. . . a few H”.
measurement and others are deliberate, using specifications
 Use a zero before decimal points: “0.25”, not “.25”.
Identify applicable funding agency here. If none, delete this text box. Use “cm3”, not “cc”. (bullet list)

XXX-X-XXXX-XXXX-X/XX/$XX.00 ©20XX IEEE


C. Equations  The abbreviation “i.e.” means “that is”, and the
The equations are an exception to the prescribed abbreviation “e.g.” means “for example”.
specifications of this template. You will need to determine An excellent style manual for science writers is [7].
whether or not your equation should be typed using either the
Times New Roman or the Symbol font (please no other font). IV. USING THE TEMPLATE
To create multileveled equations, it may be necessary to treat After the text edit has been completed, the paper is ready
the equation as a graphic and insert it into the text after your for the template. Duplicate the template file by using the
paper is styled. Save As command, and use the naming convention
Number equations consecutively. Equation numbers, prescribed by your conference for the name of your paper. In
within parentheses, are to position flush right, as in (1), using this newly created file, highlight all of the contents and
a right tab stop. To make your equations more compact, you import your prepared text file. You are now ready to style
may use the solidus ( / ), the exp function, or appropriate your paper; use the scroll down window on the left of the MS
exponents. Italicize Roman symbols for quantities and Word Formatting toolbar.
variables, but not Greek symbols. Use a long dash rather than
A. Authors and Affiliations
a hyphen for a minus sign. Punctuate equations with commas
or periods when they are part of a sentence, as in: The template is designed for, but not limited to, six
authors. A minimum of one author is required for all
ab  conference articles. Author names should be listed starting
from left to right and then moving down to the next line. This
Note that the equation is centered using a center tab stop. is the author sequence that will be used in future citations and
Be sure that the symbols in your equation have been defined by indexing services. Names should not be listed in columns
before or immediately following the equation. Use “(1)”, not nor group by affiliation. Please keep your affiliations as
“Eq. (1)” or “equation (1)”, except at the beginning of a succinct as possible (for example, do not differentiate among
sentence: “Equation (1) is . . .” departments of the same organization).

D. Some Common Mistakes 1) For papers with more than six authors: Add author
names horizontally, moving to a third row if needed for
 The word “data” is plural, not singular. more than 8 authors.
 The subscript for the permeability of vacuum 0, and 2) For papers with less than six authors: To change the
other common scientific constants, is zero with default, adjust the template as follows.
subscript formatting, not a lowercase letter “o”. a) Selection: Highlight all author and affiliation lines.
 In American English, commas, semicolons, periods, b) Change number of columns: Select the Columns
question and exclamation marks are located within icon from the MS Word Standard toolbar and then select the
quotation marks only when a complete thought or correct number of columns from the selection palette.
name is cited, such as a title or full quotation. When c) Deletion: Delete the author and affiliation lines for
quotation marks are used, instead of a bold or italic the extra authors.
typeface, to highlight a word or phrase, punctuation
should appear outside of the quotation marks. A
parenthetical phrase or statement at the end of a B. Identify the Headings
sentence is punctuated outside of the closing Headings, or heads, are organizational devices that guide
parenthesis (like this). (A parenthetical sentence is the reader through your paper. There are two types:
punctuated within the parentheses.) component heads and text heads.
 A graph within a graph is an “inset”, not an “insert”. Component heads identify the different components of
The word alternatively is preferred to the word your paper and are not topically subordinate to each other.
“alternately” (unless you really mean something that Examples include Acknowledgments and References and, for
alternates). these, the correct style to use is “Heading 5”. Use “figure
 Do not use the word “essentially” to mean caption” for your Figure captions, and “table head” for your
“approximately” or “effectively”. table title. Run-in heads, such as “Abstract”, will require you
to apply a style (in this case, italic) in addition to the style
 In your paper title, if the words “that uses” can provided by the drop down menu to differentiate the head
accurately replace the word “using”, capitalize the from the text.
“u”; if not, keep using lower-cased.
Text heads organize the topics on a relational,
 Be aware of the different meanings of the hierarchical basis. For example, the paper title is the primary
homophones “affect” and “effect”, “complement” and text head because all subsequent material relates and
“compliment”, “discreet” and “discrete”, “principal” elaborates on this one topic. If there are two or more sub-
and “principle”. topics, the next level head (uppercase Roman numerals)
should be used and, conversely, if there are not at least two
 Do not confuse “imply” and “infer”.
sub-topics, then no subheads should be introduced. Styles
 The prefix “non” is not a word; it should be joined to named “Heading 1”, “Heading 2”, “Heading 3”, and
the word it modifies, usually without a hyphen. “Heading 4” are prescribed.
 There is no period after the “et” in the Latin C. Figures and Tables
abbreviation “et al.”. a) Positioning Figures and Tables: Place figures and
tables at the top and bottom of columns. Avoid placing them
in the middle of columns. Large figures and tables may span
across both columns. Figure captions should be below the cited. Do not put footnotes in the abstract or reference list.
figures; table heads should appear above the tables. Insert Use letters for table footnotes.
figures and tables after they are cited in the text. Use the Unless there are six authors or more give all authors’
abbreviation “Fig. 1”, even at the beginning of a sentence. names; do not use “et al.”. Papers that have not been
published, even if they have been submitted for publication,
TABLE I. TABLE TYPE STYLES
should be cited as “unpublished” [4]. Papers that have been
Table Table Column Head accepted for publication should be cited as “in press” [5].
Head Table column subhead Subhead Subhead Capitalize only the first word in a paper title, except for
proper nouns and element symbols.
copy More table copya
a.
Sample of a Table footnote. (Table footnote)
For papers published in translation journals, please give
the English citation first, followed by the original foreign-
Fig. 1. Example of a figure caption. (figure caption)
language citation [6].
Figure Labels: Use 8 point Times New Roman for Figure
labels. Use words rather than symbols or abbreviations when [1] G. Eason, B. Noble, and I. N. Sneddon, “On certain integrals of
writing Figure axis labels to avoid confusing the reader. As Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions,” Phil.
an example, write the quantity “Magnetization”, or Trans. Roy. Soc. London, vol. A247, pp. 529–551, April 1955.
(references)
“Magnetization, M”, not just “M”. If including units in the
[2] J. Clerk Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, 3rd ed.,
label, present them within parentheses. Do not label axes vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon, 1892, pp.68–73.
only with units. In the example, write “Magnetization (A/m)” [3] I. S. Jacobs and C. P. Bean, “Fine particles, thin films and exchange
or “Magnetization {A[m(1)]}”, not just “A/m”. Do not label anisotropy,” in Magnetism, vol. III, G. T. Rado and H. Suhl, Eds.
axes with a ratio of quantities and units. For example, write New York: Academic, 1963, pp. 271–350.
“Temperature (K)”, not “Temperature/K”. [4] K. Elissa, “Title of paper if known,” unpublished.
[5] R. Nicole, “Title of paper with only first word capitalized,” J. Name
ACKNOWLEDGMENT (Heading 5) Stand. Abbrev., in press.
The preferred spelling of the word “acknowledgment” in [6] Y. Yorozu, M. Hirano, K. Oka, and Y. Tagawa, “Electron
America is without an “e” after the “g”. Avoid the stilted spectroscopy studies on magneto-optical media and plastic substrate
interface,” IEEE Transl. J. Magn. Japan, vol. 2, pp. 740–741, August
expression “one of us (R. B. G.) thanks ...”. Instead, try “R. 1987 [Digests 9th Annual Conf. Magnetics Japan, p. 301, 1982].
B. G. thanks...”. Put sponsor acknowledgments in the [7] M. Young, The Technical Writer’s Handbook. Mill Valley, CA:
unnumbered footnote on the first page. University Science, 1989.

REFERENCES
IEEE conference templates contain guidance text for
The template will number citations consecutively within composing and formatting conference papers. Please
brackets [1]. The sentence punctuation follows the bracket
ensure that all template text is removed from your
[2]. Refer simply to the reference number, as in [3]—do not
conference paper prior to submission to the
use “Ref. [3]” or “reference [3]” except at the beginning of a
sentence: “Reference [3] was the first ...” conference. Failure to remove template text from
your paper may result in your paper not being
Number footnotes separately in superscripts. Place the published.
actual footnote at the bottom of the column in which it was

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